So the Chinese Challenge seminar was a big hit. 13 students came in from Bergen's economics program who had been taking the same class to give presentations as well. The deal here is that there's a management program in europe called CEMS (community of euro. mgmt. schools) and because I worked with one of them I got to participate in a cooler seminar than the regular students...woot.
Very fun, the papers were all pretty interesting (I don't really like Banking, there were four papers on it). Emrick (my partner for the Luxury Goods Market paper) said some people had complimented him on our presentation. Also, we rocked out an Oxford Debate on the issue of "will Chinese involvement in Africa lead to sustainable economic development". I think the four of us who spoke for the Stockholm School of Economics dominated...Emrick took a 30 second clip of me trashing China's "aid" programs to Africa. I started a little slow but started hammering home the issues pretty well. Ratana was a machine until the last 30 seconds, and Tanzawa was a 5 minute political commercial (FACT! followed by unhappy chinese involvement stories).
As soon as I could (after Emrick and I delivered our critique on a paper regarding the Three Gorges Dam) I left to drive to Halmstad. It was pretty fun driving through Sweden...we'll see if the rumor of speed cameras was as horrible as I may have been led to believe (I followed other speeders and slowed down when they did). I met Jan-Åke, my uncle who lives between Slöinge and Getinge (both north of Halmstad) talked a lot, looked at pictures. On Saturday we visited Halmstad, walked around some and I got to see some of the places where my dad used to live/work. Very fun....and pictures! I also got to meet my cousin Susan (my dad's little sister's daughter) and her kids. All in all a very fun end to last week and start to the weekend. Time to study for my last final! Ever.
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